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Profile: Tradition's David Pinchin

As part of our 15th anniversary profile series, recently retired David Pinchin gives his farewell interview to Rachel Morison reflecting on his experiences as chief operating officer of international interdealer broker Tradition and co-founder of its…

Profile: Spectron's John Evans

John Evans, UK electricity market pioneer and business development director at Spectron Group, discusses the past, present and future of the European energy markets with Roderick Bruce.

The White stuff

JW Advisors was established earlier this year by Joseph White, one of a growing number of intermediaries leaving investment banks to go independent. Now White is constructing credit diversified portfolios for institutional clients, who are reaping the…

Capinordic expansion

Capinordic Asset Management, part of the Denmark-based Capinordic Bank, is planning to launch a structured products distribution business in Sweden. Pierre Cooper talks to Johan Tjeder, the fund manager who has been brought in to help set up the operation

Provisioning for the future

A growing number of regulators have highlighted dynamic provisioning as a means of lessening pro-cyclicality in the financial system. José Mar√≠a Rold√°n, director-general of banking regulation at the Banco de Espa√±a and chair of the Standards…

Eye on Asia

Alain Papiasse took over as chief executive of corporate and investment banking at BNP Paribas in April this year. Christopher Jeffery met with him in Hong Kong to talk about the French bank's strategy in Asia

Firm or flexible?

Fonchim, Italy's largest occupational pension scheme, has been spared the worst of the fallout from the credit crunch thanks to tough investment laws. But the question over whether to loosen asset restrictions may be back on the table. Blake Evans…

Profile: Henrik Raber

Standard Chartered's new head of capital markets in Europe, America and Africa speaks to Credit about where he sees growth opportunities in the months ahead

Highly cultured

Patricia Jalleh, head of group operational risk at United Overseas Bank Group, says that to achieve a robust op risk framework, a risk culture must be well and truly embedded within the firm. And no risk culture is perfect - it's a matter of constantly…

Benoît de Vitry

Our 15th anniversary profile series continues as Roderick Bruce talks with Benoît de Vitry, head of commodities at Barclays Capital, about his memories of the past 15 years and thoughts on the future

Pimco's Pacific heights

Pimco (or Pacific Investment Management Co, to give it its full, somewhat unwieldy name) is the eight hundred pound gorilla of the fixed income markets. When the firm makes a major investment decision, like when it switched out of MBS in 2006, the world…

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